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Promoting Adolescents’ Sexual Health through Responsive and Supportive Parenting (2010)

Author: Maria Theresa Ujano-Batangan, PhD Price: Php150 This 3rd Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study (YAFS 3) qualitative study was conceptualized to provide information to parents of adolescents on sexual risks, sexual health and parenting perspectives. It also intends to provide to provide evidence-based strategies of responsive-supportive parenting to promote sexual health, based on the...

Primary Health Care Approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (2008)

Editorial Team: Edelina P. dela Paz, Ross Mayor, Joyce P. Valbuena, Noemi B. Leis Artworks: Boy Dominguez and RJ Ilusorio Price: Php150 The Primary Health Care (PHC) approach has provided the shift in perspective from a medicalized and biomedical framework to a more sociopolitical-cultural and biopsychosocial approach to health. The principles of PHC clearly embody...

Breaking Through the Noise: An Introduction to the Spitfire Smart Chart II A Strategic Communication Tool

Editorial Board: Joyce Valbuena and Ms. Georgianna Villar Graphic Design and Layout: Nicolette de Lange Mallari Price: Php150.00 This manual is an adaptation of the Spitfire Smart Chart as embodied in the training workshops conducted by HAIN in 2006. The manual cites communication experiences and examples that are specific to Philippine context. The Smart Chart...

Managing Resource Centers for NGOs: A Practical Handbook (2004)

Authors: Noemi Bayoneta-Leis and Marijane Bugarin-Mabato, RL Design: Norberto Roldan Price: Php100.00 This manual is primarily intended for relatively small NGOs that plan to establish or are currently maintaining a Resource Center. It aims to provide users with the basic skills and knowledge in organizing materials to enhance their collection, improve the delivery of information,...

Operations Research for Family Planning: A Simplified Guide (2000)

Authors: Michael L. Tan and Grace Aguiling-Dalisay Price: Php 100.00 This manual is based on the series of training workshops on operations research and family planning that HAIN conducted from 1997 to 1999 in different parts of the Philippines. This publication is a compilation of lectures from the second round of the workshops, which was...

Medicines: Meanings and Contexts (1994)

Editors: Nina L. Etkin and Michael L. Tan Price: Php75.00 This book is a compilation of 16 articles on problems relating to the use of medicines in different parts of the world. The first section deals with perceptions and interpretations of pharmaceuticals, emphasizing the need to understand these interpretations as they relate to other understandings...

Problem Drugs (1993)

Author: Andrew Chetley Price: Php75.00 This book provides a starting point for discussions on the issue of pharmaceutical drugs. It points out that what makes a drug a problem is not so much its inherent pharmacological risks, but the way it is prescribed and used. HAIN was commissioned to produce the Philippine edition of this...

Guide to Rational Drug Use Volumes 1 & 2 (1988)

Price: Php100.00 This documents the proceedings of the workshops on Essential Drugs Policy and Rational Drug Use, which was sponsored by HAIN in coordination with Philippine Drug Action Network. The workshops discuss highly technical subjects from staff members involved in primary heath care and community based health programs. The topics include the politics of pharmacology,...